Into the Dens
In the summer of 1889, a reporter for the New York Sun went looking for a story in the Italian quarter and found one he did not expect. “During the past few weeks,” he wrote, “dark-featured women, in the garb...
Category: Catholic Social Teaching
We Must Build
There is No Vocations Crisis All across the country parishes are merging, Masses are split between different times at multiple sites, vocations directors are expressing alarm, bishops are restructuring diocesan ministries, and there are thousands of parishes without a resident...
Life, Death, and Ebola in the DRC
When subsidiarity is not linked to solidarity, it ends up becoming merely the protection of particular interests; when solidarity is not supported by subsidiarity, it degenerates into a form of welfare…. -Pope Leo XIV The northeasternmost region of the Democratic...
Political Theology & the Crisis of Contemporary Democracy
Editor’s Note: Rodrigo Guerra López delivered this paper on April 15, 2026, at the Pontifical Academy of Social Sciences plenary session on “The Uses of Power: Legitimacy, Democracy, and the Rewriting of the International Order” — a video of his...
Solidarity at a Cost
Over this past week, WPI has run a series of articles and reflections focused on the current suffering of U.S. immigrants and the risks to those who are working to protect them. Central to all of these posts has been...
American Catholics Cannot Accept This Mass Deportation Campaign
Note from WPI: Given the importance of addressing the recent U.S. Immigration response, we have decided to dedicate this first week of March to highlighting the current situation in the U.S. and to discussing the Catholic response. We have chosen...
Racism in US Catholic Schools: The Weeds in Our Garden
Note: Some names have been altered to protect the individuals involved in this article. For Lila, the racism started in the third grade. After an older boy repeatedly made hurtful comments about the color of her skin, Lila began telling...
Winter Olympics: A Glimpse of Global Solidarity
Note: This article was originally published by The Association of U.S. Catholic Priests on February 23, 2026. It was a colorful scene watching the athletes of the 2026 Winter Olympics march in the opening ceremonies carrying the flags of the...
What Martin Luther King Jr. has to say to Bishop Robert Barron
I’ve been reflecting on how MLK confronted structures of sin within Christianity, and how he would respond to Catholics today. Specifically, how he would respond to Bishop Barron’s failure to be a voice of moral clarity during the ICE raids...
The Need for Care Becomes Divine
Earlier this week, Pope Leo was asked about the passing of “Deb’s Law” in Illinois. Signed into law earlier this month by Governor JB Pritzker, this law legalizes medically assisted killing in the pope’s home state. Leo said he was...
Integral Human Development: Catholic Social Teaching’s Vision of Human Flourishing
While reading Pope Leo’s recent apostolic exhortation, Dilexi te, I was struck by an oblique reference he makes in the first chapter. Quoting Pope Francis, Leo observes that “some economic rules have proved effective for growth, but not for integral...
“I Was Hungry” A Call to Action For US Catholics
On Friday, November 8, the United States Supreme Court halted a lower court’s ruling that the Trump Administration must fully fund SNAP. Feeding America’s chief marketing and communications officer, Monica Lopez Gonzalez, said that the current “situation is catastrophic” and...
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